The idea was to have a portable and foldable structure that when folding in place become a cover for the pelgrims for the Santiago de Compostela Road. It could be folded into to a single component size for an easy transportation.
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Nubular
nube | noo’-bay noun A cloud. (f) (Spanish) tubular |ˈt(y)o͞obyələr| adjective long, round, and hollow like a tube: tubular flowers of deep crimson.
Posted in Alessio Salvatore Verdolino, Kateryna Rogynska, Ramin Shambayati, Robert Douglas McKaye, Sahil Sharma, Tobias Grumstrup Lund Øhrstrøm Tagged lightweight structures Comments closed
The Geo-Sphere
The Geo-Sphere is based around the concept of tension. Whilst experimenting with the material, we tested the most efficient ways to contently keep it in tension. By creating a strong support system, we experimented with the positioning of the supports that would continuously stretch and hold the material. The purpose of the [...]
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The Tensegrity Lego
The Tensegrity Lego is made of collective tensegrity modules to achieve an overall counterbalanced and self standing structure. The structure of each module is achieved by a piece of fabric cut according to a specific geometry generated from Kangaroo, holding four poles along its four edges and eventually creating curvatures between each set of diagonal [...]
Posted in Alejandro Martinez del Campo, Archana Kadaba Ramesh, Asif Rahman, Maureen Eunice Estrella Lora, Pablo Miguel Marcet Pokorny, Uncategorized Comments closed
PRACTISE FABRICATION // LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES 1:1 // day 4 to 6
Practise Fabrication // Lightweight Structures 1:1 Seminar, development continues….
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